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I appreciate your concern, and yes, I'm still very much alive. I'm just a father with a full-time job, and an allergy to social media I used to work on this in the wee hours and now I use those hours for.... sleep Your donations got the app started - and I'm so grateful - But the app isn't ready to share yet. I will get an app finished. I will. I will. I will. "But when?!" I won't promise anything yet but I won't forget either Sending you all love from the real world
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Aug 28, 2025
Aug 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM UTC
"Still alive!"
While the globe crawls as S L O W as my bill is thin, I've got places to go, sunsets to chase and mighty, invisible wings to feed, so               bring on the sugar water! Feathers flickering furiously; sweet Jesus! where are my feet? I am BUZZING through today, routes as long as my tongue repeated in an unbroken line thousands of times,               *hey, **** OFF, you goon!               That's MY nectar!               Scram!* Planning my daily rounds, relying on the donations of fans who eye my turf war with childish glee               *and I hope               beyond hope to see               pitcher after sweet pitcher               waiting for me* Because neglect is starvation, an end to the thrum of tiny hearts.
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Aug 29, 2014
Aug 29, 2014 at 7:13 PM UTC
My Life As A Hummingbird
Sorting boxes, packing clothes Assaulted by the past When you stood and said forever You both thought it would last A jewellery box, a trinket here A gift they never used A present from five years ago You smile, a bit bemused The boxes fill, the tears arrive You know it must be done It's the one part of a person's life That surely isn't fun Textures and scents surround you They take you back in time To a place before computers When a phone call cost a dime You fill one box, put it aside "Donations" on the side You can picture every item That you piled up inside You put them in there lovingly You didn't want to let them go By releasing them into the box It forced you to....you know Accept that you're alone now That your partner is not here That the life you built together Is now remembered by a tear You gave things out to family Though you do not know just why They will stick them in a drop box And that just makes you cry You picture them inside the clothes And you hear their laugh as you Put magazines and tolietries Inside Box number two You put aside some things you like To remember better days Though you know that in the future You'll remember through a haze Time will mar your memories Keep the good times, wipe the bad You'll forget about the smile And this really is quite sad It takes days to sort the boxes Fill the others, pack them all By the time that you are finished They will almost fill the hall When complete you think on What is in the totes There's clothing, jewellery, memories And magazines and notes You don't know where to take them You balance on a knife The question here before you How do you give away a life?
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Apr 28, 2012
Apr 28, 2012 at 6:10 PM UTC
How Do You Give Away A Life?
Sorting boxes, packing clothes Assaulted by the past When you stood and said forever You both thought it would last A jewellery box, a trinket here A gift they never used A present from five years ago You smile, a bit bemused The boxes fill, the tears arrive You know it must be done It's the one part of a person's life That surely isn't fun Textures and scents surround you They take you back in time To a place before computers When a phone call cost a dime You fill one box, put it aside "Donations" on the side You can picture every item That you piled up inside You put them in there lovingly You didn't want to let them go By releasing them into the box It forced you to....you know Accept that you're alone now That your partner is not here That the life you built together Is now remembered by a tear You gave things out to family Though you do not know just why They will stick them in a drop box And that just makes you cry You picture them inside the clothes And you hear their laugh as you Put magazines and tolietries Inside Box number two You put aside some things you like To remember better days Though you know that in the future You'll remember through a haze Time will mar your memories Keep the good times, wipe the bad You'll forget about the smile And this really is quite sad It takes days to sort the boxes Fill the others, pack them all By the time that you are finished They will almost fill the hall When complete you think on What is in the totes There's clothing, jewellery, memories And magazines and notes You don't know where to take them You balance on a knife The question here before you How do you give away a life?
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Are there lawyers in heaven? who sells fish in a Seven-Eleven? How do you prove guilt or innocence, with the devil conspicuous in his absence? Are there barbers or pastors in Heaven? Until the End-of-Days, it is unproven; If we are to do some speculation, Better to do more charitable donations. But one profession, I quite understand, whether in hell or God's Disneyland, that will not make a good living; that's doing double entry accounting. So where do accountants go, you ask; now you really need an oxygen mask; In hell, in heaven, or anywhere you look, there's just no place to cook the books. Someone may now ask about exorcists, I hate to answer, but I just can't resist; ask your grandma or grandpa, they are in a real big dilemma. In heaven, no demons to trouble you, In hell, there are more than quite a few; In heaven, all are good, so no originality, In hell, who works for nothing for Eternity?
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 5:09 AM UTC
Lawyers in Heaven
Retailers hope to net profits with the overlapping of holiday seasons. Thanksgiving is yet to be history; but, out comes the Christmas trimmings. No big surprise seeing holiday reminders arriving and filling mail box, comes with pre-season, this early blitz of commercials on tv now the net. Early arrival of holiday brings bell ringers standing between shopper's exit, a failure to repeat and repeat donations, brings looks of extreme displeasure. Each and every time you enter or exit discount, drug, and many retail stores, shoppers face not only bell ringers; but, 365 days donate at register requests. Most can't equal billion dollar give aways by Bill and Melinda Gates' circle. Most work extremely hard and donate but also choose to live on budgets. I donate and have nothing against charities; but, how much should one give? Retailers, putting shoppers on the spot, asking for donations upon check out? Never a pinch penny when it comes to sharing when there's an "actual" need, generosity is always a personal choice, I let guilt not be my companion in giving. Multiple donations to canister's of amnesiac holiday bell ringers? Wont happen! Nothing against legit charities; but, giving until you're broke, you "will" be needy.
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM UTC
Charity
Fundraising for the flood but there's bound to be another one year-to-year they always come and wash out the Midwest. So just ride your bike for high ground Pedal fast, forget the chests that sit there filled with pledged donations for the drowning, doomed Midwest.
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 6:59 PM UTC
Springtime in North Dakota
Alone That's how I feel very often Sitting here on my own  Til the day I'm in my coffin  Double crossers run they mouth more than water in a faucet And these ratchet *** hoes only want what's in my pocket  Foreal  All these fake *** ****** claiming they yo friend But in the end everybody know its just pretend  Unlike the demons that I see in every empty room And the reasons why the world is stressed from work and shrooms Every season 50 people on Milwaukee news Dying cuz they tryna find a way to get around the rules And it's funny Well it's really kinda stunning Cuz they tryna make that money To see they kids make it out of school Now ig they'll never see that day.  Why ? Cuz they died tryna get paid.  Wow.  They lived for the same thing they died for.  Blood drips and now they the one that millions cry for.  But last week he was knocking on every single door Asking for donations for his child and nothing more But they snickered and lied on they doorstand  And now they sniffle and cry for this poor man The three types of people that I mentioned before Are the same people behind all those knocked doors  The double crossers were friends that wanted new friends The ratchet *** was his unsupportive girlfriend The fake guy Was every person that cried When they found out that he died  But mocked him while he was alive I don't want those kind of people around me That's why I claim my loneliness so proudly  That's why I'm lonely in this world with no poise Yes I'm alone. But loneliness is my choice.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM UTC
Loneliness: A Blessing or a Curse?
Alone That's how I feel very often Sitting here on my own  Til the day I'm in my coffin  Double crossers run they mouth more than water in a faucet And these ratchet *** hoes only want what's in my pocket  Foreal  All these fake *** ****** claiming they yo friend But in the end everybody know its just pretend  Unlike the demons that I see in every empty room And the reasons why the world is stressed from work and shrooms Every season 50 people on Milwaukee news Dying cuz they tryna find a way to get around the rules And it's funny Well it's really kinda stunning Cuz they tryna make that money To see they kids make it out of school Now ig they'll never see that day.  Why ? Cuz they died tryna get paid.  Wow.  They lived for the same thing they died for.  Blood drips and now they the one that millions cry for.  But last week he was knocking on every single door Asking for donations for his child and nothing more But they snickered and lied on they doorstand  And now they sniffle and cry for this poor man The three types of people that I mentioned before Are the same people behind all those knocked doors  The double crossers were friends that wanted new friends The ratchet *** was his unsupportive girlfriend The fake guy Was every person that cried When they found out that he died  But mocked him while he was alive I don't want those kind of people around me That's why I claim my loneliness so proudly  That's why I'm lonely in this world with no poise Yes I'm alone. But loneliness is my choice.
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Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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Aug 26, 2014
Aug 26, 2014 at 10:51 AM UTC
Material World
Do we have any idea? Have we even got a clue? Can it be that we don't give a **** what others are going through. Are we so wrapped up in selfish mode? So devoted to our own. That we should sit back and watch as others are gnawed down to the bone. Should it be that our own offspring if they were cast away so far? Would we worry about that pipeline bringing fuel to run our car? Or would we stand aloft in horror as they were thrown unto the ground? Or for fuel thats cheap and plentiful, is it ok to make no sound? We hear about disasters. Tsunami strikes upon Japan. Earthquakes raging out in Haiti Watch death befall our fellow man. Throw donations in a bucket at the supermarket doors, then forget because of shopping. but we have paid towards their cause. Could you ever even fathom? Your children crying as they play, not for Barbies or Play-stations but for the pain to go away. Never asking for the latest made by Hamleys or Mattel rather just an handfull of food to help beat the starvation battle. Wash it down with poison water from a river filled with **** or collect in rusty tin cans from a worn and stagnant pit. If this was the plight of our children things would surely be said. We would try to move a mountain rather than our young be dead. Could you ever really imagine? Could you ever really get, that a million hits on You-Tube turn endangered species into pets? What if someone could ask on face-book about your daughter or your son, saying"It looks so cute and cuddly, "go on e-bay and buy me one." If only we could all be happy, not feel a need to own the place. If we could learn to be contented by a childs smiling face. Treat the world with awe and wonder. Treat its creatures with respect. Treat each other in this same way. Treat nobody with neglect. Then perhaps we may push together, make our Governments do right. Let's lead the World with people power, no more starvation or blight. Let's be less materialistic let us have a life of worh Not by owning all we see, rather sharing this our earth.
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Time to quit ribbons, pins, and rubber bands I don't need them to take a stand The bracelets cut blood flow to my hands And the pins just hurt my ******* Red, Blue, Green, white, Pink, Yellow, black Show just what causes that I back The rubber bands, just hurt me jack And the pins....they hurt my ******* Donations work and show my support But, **** those pins, they really hurt I'll take the makers all to court Their pins...they hurt my ******* Most people don't know what they mean Be it white, or blue or black or green Wear them all on one side, and you will lean and those pins..just hurt my ******* I leave the ribbons home instead And the bracelets stay beside my bed The pins go on my hats instead They done ripped apart my *******
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 10:31 PM UTC
Charity ribbons, bracelets and pins
To Bailey What up cousin? It’s been a while since we’ve spoken.. I’ve been tryin to keep my mind focused and stayin open.. tryin to figure out how to rebuild my heart again now that it’s broken.. hopin and prayin to some god that it’s all a dream an I’ll be awoken.. But I’m not an ignorant or irrational man, so it’s back to life as I know it.. now I sit here with pen in hand, talking to another lost loved one as a poet.. god **** every time it seems to get a little harder and harder to be stoic.. I do it for you, but my choice would have been to find a rock and hide far below it.. But I’ve held you down, an showed the world a face with a sculpted smile.. Meanwhile inside I strong armed my stomach to prevent the expulsion of bile.. mind racing, god ****** Just 29 years is nowhere near a long enough while!! and to think, you barely even got to spend 3 of those with your child.. It makes me want to shout to the stars and curse our own existence.. I guess I learned I can’t box god due to something about my arms and the distance.. so I’ve given up being angry about it and stopped my resistance.. but the one thing it’s affected more than any other is my persistence.. From time to time I’m gonna ask someone “has anyone told you they loved you today?” and if they say no, I’ll be the first person to show them a sincere display… YOU taught me that bailey, and no matter what, I’ll never let it slip away… I can’t thank you enough for your life, I wouldn’t even know how to repay! It’s those small perfect lessons we can all take from your life… I couldn’t even begin to tell them all in the course of one night… you were an amazing person to anyone who met you, a true delight.. people called you a shiner, a catalyst, a loving father, and a white knight… everyone had a story of how you had given them inspiration.. I can’t thank you enough on behalf of the world for your donations! I’m glad I could finally write this letter to show my appreciation.. the words had been escaping me with some trepidation.. I love you Bailey, always have and always will!! I can’t believe you’re gone but I carry on still… I soldier up when I need to then settle down to chill… I’ll see you when I see you, you know the drill… Rest In Peace: Bailey Paul McKeon-Phillips
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Aug 7, 2010
Aug 7, 2010 at 2:57 PM UTC
To my cousin Bailey... RIP
To Bailey What up cousin? It’s been a while since we’ve spoken.. I’ve been tryin to keep my mind focused and stayin open.. tryin to figure out how to rebuild my heart again now that it’s broken.. hopin and prayin to some god that it’s all a dream an I’ll be awoken.. But I’m not an ignorant or irrational man, so it’s back to life as I know it.. now I sit here with pen in hand, talking to another lost loved one as a poet.. god **** every time it seems to get a little harder and harder to be stoic.. I do it for you, but my choice would have been to find a rock and hide far below it.. But I’ve held you down, an showed the world a face with a sculpted smile.. Meanwhile inside I strong armed my stomach to prevent the expulsion of bile.. mind racing, god ****** Just 29 years is nowhere near a long enough while!! and to think, you barely even got to spend 3 of those with your child.. It makes me want to shout to the stars and curse our own existence.. I guess I learned I can’t box god due to something about my arms and the distance.. so I’ve given up being angry about it and stopped my resistance.. but the one thing it’s affected more than any other is my persistence.. From time to time I’m gonna ask someone “has anyone told you they loved you today?” and if they say no, I’ll be the first person to show them a sincere display… YOU taught me that bailey, and no matter what, I’ll never let it slip away… I can’t thank you enough for your life, I wouldn’t even know how to repay! It’s those small perfect lessons we can all take from your life… I couldn’t even begin to tell them all in the course of one night… you were an amazing person to anyone who met you, a true delight.. people called you a shiner, a catalyst, a loving father, and a white knight… everyone had a story of how you had given them inspiration.. I can’t thank you enough on behalf of the world for your donations! I’m glad I could finally write this letter to show my appreciation.. the words had been escaping me with some trepidation.. I love you Bailey, always have and always will!! I can’t believe you’re gone but I carry on still… I soldier up when I need to then settle down to chill… I’ll see you when I see you, you know the drill… Rest In Peace: Bailey Paul McKeon-Phillips
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Oh Eliot, Poor Eliot, Your Fans Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad^ <> we tithed thee with donations plenty, here a dollar, there a fiver, a coupon for free chips, worthy of somebody’s eternal gratitude, that would be you, da Duke, Duke of York the largest online free poetry site, a million visitors a day, why you must be the richest poet online billionaire, right? you, da Duke, Duke of York and occasional poet... in return, all we occasional poets demand steady on instant access, immediate satisfaction, after all, a part time job deserves your bestus-best, just like every other large online site, that never crashes, we’re not like just the rest, we are p o e t s, occasionally so keep the servers engines, well stoked with Newcastle coal, keep them up and running round the clock, using only alternative energy, of the unceasing sun light of merry old England! quit that other job, you must, instead of giving up on us, give in to us, a poetry break, a writing recharge, though please add a limited liability clause to the FAQ’s, that poets’ lives must deal with the hiccup occasional you, da Duke, Duke of York, newly now, an appointment royale as Major General,^^ you, the very model of a modern major general possessing information vegetable, animal, mineral and technical, who knows the Queens  of England, who, maybe even now is telling tales of your heroics with the hordes of hysterical occasional poetical globalists demanding light brigadests charging the redoubt and when you have a moment spare, a haircut, please. no, that is not a request, naturally <> 10/19/19 Noontime NYC natalino
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Oct 19, 2019
Oct 19, 2019 at 12:21 PM UTC
Oh Eliot, Poor Eliot, Your Fans Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad
Oh Eliot, Poor Eliot, Your Fans Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad^ <> we tithed thee with donations plenty, here a dollar, there a fiver, a coupon for free chips, worthy of somebody’s eternal gratitude, that would be you, da Duke, Duke of York the largest online free poetry site, a million visitors a day, why you must be the richest poet online billionaire, right? you, da Duke, Duke of York and occasional poet... in return, all we occasional poets demand steady on instant access, immediate satisfaction, after all, a part time job deserves your bestus-best, just like every other large online site, that never crashes, we’re not like just the rest, we are p o e t s, occasionally so keep the servers engines, well stoked with Newcastle coal, keep them up and running round the clock, using only alternative energy, of the unceasing sun light of merry old England! quit that other job, you must, instead of giving up on us, give in to us, a poetry break, a writing recharge, though please add a limited liability clause to the FAQ’s, that poets’ lives must deal with the hiccup occasional you, da Duke, Duke of York, newly now, an appointment royale as Major General,^^ you, the very model of a modern major general possessing information vegetable, animal, mineral and technical, who knows the Queens  of England, who, maybe even now is telling tales of your heroics with the hordes of hysterical occasional poetical globalists demanding light brigadests charging the redoubt and when you have a moment spare, a haircut, please. no, that is not a request, naturally <> 10/19/19 Noontime NYC natalino
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We went out back After the meeting when we knew we had nothing and had a long way to go and were now much happier To the little barn Stuffed with donations from magical beings with money who bought things from stores and used them and then left them silently in crackling plastic bags We had listened and found all the he's were the same We were not alone and strange as he had said Those he's always said that we had nothing that he had taken and we were not ashamed Digging deeper into the bins hoping for treasure Lingerie with lace Sparkling silly bling Shoes for work I still have the purple lamp you picked out for me Your check for tuition bounced as we shopped and we thought it was funny
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Apr 27, 2012
Apr 27, 2012 at 9:33 PM UTC
Shopping
So much sitting on my tongue. So much impossible to believe. Man targets gay club... 50 dead, 56 injured. Blood donations, no gay blood. Spouses can't even help one another. Wanna know what I say? **** the quote "freedom" If this country were truly free gays could go to clubs without the fear of getting shot down. People could donate blood and not have to be a certain sexuality. Freedom doesn't excist in this country if you are gay. Pray for freedom. Pray for the victims Never stop fighting for your rights.
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Jun 15, 2016
Jun 15, 2016 at 2:11 PM UTC
The Orlando shooting
Your voice has a choice. Your tongue is moist with juicy, fruitful words. Your lips chirp like harmonious birds; building botanical gardens inside some beautiful person’s head somewhere. You could distinguish old flames, smother your pride ignore all blame… Or you could turn something worse. Go postal, find trouble to immerse yourself in. Do you even try to scale the value between a blessing and a curse? Did it sound more exciting when I said Congratulations first? Is your mommy and the tv well distraction from the hearse all of us blindly ride in. We’re born into a society claiming Life, Freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I feel no freedom in our flags when more blood falls on clothing tags of women who were “just asking for it”. I’m desperately clinging onto the pursuit of happiness, but my hands slide off like butter fingers pursuing monkey bars The greasy kind of disappointment you can get at McDonalds for a dollar I’m a little confused where the donations are Ronald? $27.6 billion in revenue, yet every seventeen minutes another person pursues death as if it were their only chance of freedom and you’re squeezing your red clown nose thinking of what new toy to impose on the children buying Happy Meals. The 111th richest corporation in the nation has the audacity to serve deep fried pink slime and call it a happy meal. At the same moment, a stiff insurance business suit is denying extended treatment to people. People: dying to learn how to tame the monsters in their heads, dying to learn how harming themselves harms their families health, dying to learn how to fight enemies who sing them to sleep at night. Thousands of children men and women who are in so much pain. Plastered with close-lidded visions nightmare doorknobs with creaking hinges. Some violent, some explosive, some ****** ostly misunderstood combinations of the above. Some, accidents stained with blood. Some, knife twisting in their back, broken oaths. There is more freedom in valuing the pursuit of life than happiness in living for a dying pursuit Congratulations, we live in a society where the living die with a side order of either painful awareness or numb naivety.
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 5:43 AM UTC
Congratulations, you're alive!
Your voice has a choice. Your tongue is moist with juicy, fruitful words. Your lips chirp like harmonious birds; building botanical gardens inside some beautiful person’s head somewhere. You could distinguish old flames, smother your pride ignore all blame… Or you could turn something worse. Go postal, find trouble to immerse yourself in. Do you even try to scale the value between a blessing and a curse? Did it sound more exciting when I said Congratulations first? Is your mommy and the tv well distraction from the hearse all of us blindly ride in. We’re born into a society claiming Life, Freedom and the pursuit of happiness. I feel no freedom in our flags when more blood falls on clothing tags of women who were “just asking for it”. I’m desperately clinging onto the pursuit of happiness, but my hands slide off like butter fingers pursuing monkey bars The greasy kind of disappointment you can get at McDonalds for a dollar I’m a little confused where the donations are Ronald? $27.6 billion in revenue, yet every seventeen minutes another person pursues death as if it were their only chance of freedom and you’re squeezing your red clown nose thinking of what new toy to impose on the children buying Happy Meals. The 111th richest corporation in the nation has the audacity to serve deep fried pink slime and call it a happy meal. At the same moment, a stiff insurance business suit is denying extended treatment to people. People: dying to learn how to tame the monsters in their heads, dying to learn how harming themselves harms their families health, dying to learn how to fight enemies who sing them to sleep at night. Thousands of children men and women who are in so much pain. Plastered with close-lidded visions nightmare doorknobs with creaking hinges. Some violent, some explosive, some ****** ostly misunderstood combinations of the above. Some, accidents stained with blood. Some, knife twisting in their back, broken oaths. There is more freedom in valuing the pursuit of life than happiness in living for a dying pursuit Congratulations, we live in a society where the living die with a side order of either painful awareness or numb naivety.
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Under alcohol umbrellas We'll seek shelter from the snow This street is icing over Sliding sleet beneath our toes. This place keeps getting colder, They predicted our bad luck But the globe is growing warmer Choke me down, I'll get choked up. It's like Wharton is your neighbor And McCarthy shares her bed-- We've got plenty Pretty Horses But no Room, here, for Old Men Tickers spit out headlines Half of us can't even read. But the other half's no better, We're cannibals eating dreams. So you'll keep your smoke and mirrors. And, reflecting, stifle coughs. Operate under assumptions: Overrated's good enough. But I'm taking bets, suggestions, And donations, West to East. So, from minor indiscretions, I might try to beg release.
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 7:03 PM UTC
Alcohol Umbrellas
This week, Jesse Herndon has more on her plate than the typical high school student. She has spent hours after school each day making calls, finalizing details for an event happening Sunday. Collecting donated items for an upcoming silent auction. Calling every bakery in Greensboro. “It’s very stressful,” said Herndon, a junior at Weaver Academy. But it’s all for a good cause. She’s organizing an event with free pastries, live music, a fashion show and a silent auction, which will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday night at The Blind Tiger, 1819 Spring Garden Street in Greensboro. Admission is $4 with the donation of clothing of any size. The goal is to collect clothes that would comply with Standard Mode of Dress, or SMOD, the uniforms required at some local schools. The fashion show will feature clothes from Plato’s Closet, Mack and Mack, and Patina Bridal and Formals. The silent auction would include items such as Weaver Academy student artwork and a gift bag full of beauty products valued at about $200. Herdon is still seeking donations of items to auction. The event will benefit Backpack Beginnings, a local organization that provides food and clothing for thousands of local needy children. All 127 Guilford schools have a dress code, but a few dozen require students to wear uniforms. Some parents have complained about the cost of buying the uniforms. They’ve also complained that the uniform dress codes vary from school to school, requiring additional clothes purchases if a child changes schools. Parents and some students also described dress code violations for wearing a jacket with a hood, a logo deemed too large or the wrong color shoelaces. “SMOD is really expensive,” Herdon said. She knows because her sisters have attended SMOD schools. In January, the Guilford County Board of Education unanimously approved changes to its policy on SMOD. Principals of current SMOD schools have until June to survey parents on whether to continue requiring students to wear uniforms in the 2015-16 school year. Now, school administrators at traditional schools also have to get public input before requiring uniforms. Ever two years, traditional schools with SMOD have to reconsider requiring uniforms and demonstrate public support for the policy.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 10:42 PM UTC
Weaver student supports local charity with fashion show, silent auction
This week, Jesse Herndon has more on her plate than the typical high school student. She has spent hours after school each day making calls, finalizing details for an event happening Sunday. Collecting donated items for an upcoming silent auction. Calling every bakery in Greensboro. “It’s very stressful,” said Herndon, a junior at Weaver Academy. But it’s all for a good cause. She’s organizing an event with free pastries, live music, a fashion show and a silent auction, which will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday night at The Blind Tiger, 1819 Spring Garden Street in Greensboro. Admission is $4 with the donation of clothing of any size. The goal is to collect clothes that would comply with Standard Mode of Dress, or SMOD, the uniforms required at some local schools. The fashion show will feature clothes from Plato’s Closet, Mack and Mack, and Patina Bridal and Formals. The silent auction would include items such as Weaver Academy student artwork and a gift bag full of beauty products valued at about $200. Herdon is still seeking donations of items to auction. The event will benefit Backpack Beginnings, a local organization that provides food and clothing for thousands of local needy children. All 127 Guilford schools have a dress code, but a few dozen require students to wear uniforms. Some parents have complained about the cost of buying the uniforms. They’ve also complained that the uniform dress codes vary from school to school, requiring additional clothes purchases if a child changes schools. Parents and some students also described dress code violations for wearing a jacket with a hood, a logo deemed too large or the wrong color shoelaces. “SMOD is really expensive,” Herdon said. She knows because her sisters have attended SMOD schools. In January, the Guilford County Board of Education unanimously approved changes to its policy on SMOD. Principals of current SMOD schools have until June to survey parents on whether to continue requiring students to wear uniforms in the 2015-16 school year. Now, school administrators at traditional schools also have to get public input before requiring uniforms. Ever two years, traditional schools with SMOD have to reconsider requiring uniforms and demonstrate public support for the policy.Read more here:www.marieaustralia.com/evening-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses
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Dear Harry, I see you're doing well these days. One year later and I still watch as you grin and laugh with your friends. Sometimes I just grin as well knowing the truth behind the plastic you call a smile. You once told me that you feel like you don’t belong. You get a burning in your chest thinking of how awful humanity is and how you wish you were a robot so your brain would match your body. But when I told you from the anxious walls of my heart that I sort of feel the same but I'm not making a metaphor, I'm transgender You said that I didn't feel it as intensely as you did so my identity wasn't that important. I suppose I can tell you now that you became the reason why I agree with you about humanity. Your face sickens me. Sort of funny how everyone calls you Harry Potter because of a scar shaped like a lightning bolt on your cheek and it was a big joke and I always laughed because what a coincidence even though I never read the books or watched the movies and now because of you: I never will want to. I don’t know if you realise that you’ve shattered me. Shattered me like the board you can cut in half thanks to years of karate and your hand crafted swords are part of the reason I never crossed you because if I just change myself hard enough maybe you would stop saying you could use them on me if I kept talking about how much I love everything if everything isn’t you. Sometimes I would wonder if you could hear my knees fighting not to snap in half. I would wonder if you knew that you are like a hurricane; strong and unpredictable. And like a hurricane, you came storming and when your thunder rumbled and rain paraded all over me it left nothing untouched. I could say you're a forest fire but that would make it hot and quick and emotionless. No, you are a hurricane because hurricanes are wet and windy and raw and wild and it left me drowning. Unlike a hurricane, your damage can not be fixed with teamwork and donations from those that feel sympathy. The damage you’ve done is permanent and even with all the repairs I’ve made in the form of therapy sessions and promises that I shall overcome, I. I am still in ruins. You are bitter but not sweet. But for 17 torturous months I only saw it the other way around.   Reaching out to try to catch onto something worth fighting for But this isn’t worth fighting for Because my hands hurt from writing I’m sorrys. Because my brain hurts from pushing out reasons you’re not worth it. Because my soul hurts from fighting the back of my mind that still loves you. You have rendered me obsolete.
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Mar 24, 2017
Mar 24, 2017 at 3:34 PM UTC
Letter To Burn In The Ashes Of His Flame
Dear Harry, I see you're doing well these days. One year later and I still watch as you grin and laugh with your friends. Sometimes I just grin as well knowing the truth behind the plastic you call a smile. You once told me that you feel like you don’t belong. You get a burning in your chest thinking of how awful humanity is and how you wish you were a robot so your brain would match your body. But when I told you from the anxious walls of my heart that I sort of feel the same but I'm not making a metaphor, I'm transgender You said that I didn't feel it as intensely as you did so my identity wasn't that important. I suppose I can tell you now that you became the reason why I agree with you about humanity. Your face sickens me. Sort of funny how everyone calls you Harry Potter because of a scar shaped like a lightning bolt on your cheek and it was a big joke and I always laughed because what a coincidence even though I never read the books or watched the movies and now because of you: I never will want to. I don’t know if you realise that you’ve shattered me. Shattered me like the board you can cut in half thanks to years of karate and your hand crafted swords are part of the reason I never crossed you because if I just change myself hard enough maybe you would stop saying you could use them on me if I kept talking about how much I love everything if everything isn’t you. Sometimes I would wonder if you could hear my knees fighting not to snap in half. I would wonder if you knew that you are like a hurricane; strong and unpredictable. And like a hurricane, you came storming and when your thunder rumbled and rain paraded all over me it left nothing untouched. I could say you're a forest fire but that would make it hot and quick and emotionless. No, you are a hurricane because hurricanes are wet and windy and raw and wild and it left me drowning. Unlike a hurricane, your damage can not be fixed with teamwork and donations from those that feel sympathy. The damage you’ve done is permanent and even with all the repairs I’ve made in the form of therapy sessions and promises that I shall overcome, I. I am still in ruins. You are bitter but not sweet. But for 17 torturous months I only saw it the other way around.   Reaching out to try to catch onto something worth fighting for But this isn’t worth fighting for Because my hands hurt from writing I’m sorrys. Because my brain hurts from pushing out reasons you’re not worth it. Because my soul hurts from fighting the back of my mind that still loves you. You have rendered me obsolete.
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For once I would like to be longed for. I have spent countless hours of my life yearning for love from people who did not know how to accept mine. I have been told time and time again that not everybody will understand the way I love. Not everyone holds their hearts in the same regard as I do so they do not know how to return my love back to me. Over time I started confessing my love in front of mirrors, my reflection both the sender and the recipient of my love letters. For once I would like to be the girl you dream about. I want to be on the receiving end of smiles from bubbly girls. I long to be the one to make brooding boys laugh. I am the only one writing poems about strangers I see in the streets. I make playlists for my best friend to tell her I love her but never send them. My love has been rejected too many times to take chances. I have accepted that maybe I’m only meant to dish out love like donations. My heart is spare change in empty coffee cups on busy city sidewalks. For once I would like to be loved. Not just liked. Not just a fling or a fleeting thought or another notch on another persons bedpost. I want someone to think of me in the same way I think of them. I want someone to look at me and see a spark. A possibility. A future that’s worth working for. I would like to be on the receiving end of goodnight texts sent long after I’ve already fallen asleep, so when morning comes I can know I’m on someone’s mind even when I’m not present. Maybe someday I’ll be the girl you hear about in love songs but for now I’ll keep writing love letters I never send. Spilled ink will never hurt as deeply as watching someone you love not love you back.
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Mar 7, 2021
Mar 7, 2021 at 10:03 AM UTC
Greek Tragedy
For once I would like to be longed for. I have spent countless hours of my life yearning for love from people who did not know how to accept mine. I have been told time and time again that not everybody will understand the way I love. Not everyone holds their hearts in the same regard as I do so they do not know how to return my love back to me. Over time I started confessing my love in front of mirrors, my reflection both the sender and the recipient of my love letters. For once I would like to be the girl you dream about. I want to be on the receiving end of smiles from bubbly girls. I long to be the one to make brooding boys laugh. I am the only one writing poems about strangers I see in the streets. I make playlists for my best friend to tell her I love her but never send them. My love has been rejected too many times to take chances. I have accepted that maybe I’m only meant to dish out love like donations. My heart is spare change in empty coffee cups on busy city sidewalks. For once I would like to be loved. Not just liked. Not just a fling or a fleeting thought or another notch on another persons bedpost. I want someone to think of me in the same way I think of them. I want someone to look at me and see a spark. A possibility. A future that’s worth working for. I would like to be on the receiving end of goodnight texts sent long after I’ve already fallen asleep, so when morning comes I can know I’m on someone’s mind even when I’m not present. Maybe someday I’ll be the girl you hear about in love songs but for now I’ll keep writing love letters I never send. Spilled ink will never hurt as deeply as watching someone you love not love you back.
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In darkened dream, my walk was halted, confronted by a tree, It stood upright, a branch outstretched and blocked the path on me. In circumventing sideways dance I edged in grass quite slow, but a craggy root handcuffed me, and would not let me go. I stood in shocked drawn silent gaze, unsure of where to turn, This tree had pulled me tighter now, it fought my urge to run. But then it spoke in ancient voice, in tones of guttural flow. Dark words in wood translation, spoke of a poisoned stream below. The leaf on every branch now shivered, in worried recounted tale, as it described through words so clear what caused its bark to fail. A darkened tale of toxic waste, a legacy untold. of man's destructive story, where greed and fear unfold. Water table now unset In (fractured gas) halation. Land is sold and cracked in tempted cash flirtation War for oil in scarlet lands, where majors lived at base. The youth in pointless sacrifice, to save the political face. Where poverty prevailed amid abundant arable nations. and the silent cries of children skewed charitable donations. Air of grey, fermented with pollen soft pollution. Chokes of spluttered ash, cast doubt on evolution This tale of woe recounted by nature's mother-tree with roots now losing hold while balanced grip on me. Swaying branch quite dangerously in forgotten leafy youth. this once majestic elder falls, unburdened by this truth. It died in pain where it had grown drowned slow in poisoned stream. a fading track on reddened skin where its handcuffed branch had been. I straightened up and stumbled on relieved it had let me go. My eyes in shock, slowly adjusted To wood in flat plateau. I cast my eyes in horizoned view not believing what I'd seen. The wood in matchsticked pattern where once proud kings had been. The landscape now lay barren, with wood strewn all around. The stench of rot erupted from muddy blackened ground. I wandered off to tell the tale, of being confronted by this tree, unsure of what just happened or why it had chosen me. I walked for miles in desolate, through air starved atmosphere. but met no one along this road, a winding pot-holed frontier. I walked until I finally woke. in spluttered inhalation. Confused, I feared this reality, of earth's final damnation. In darkened dream, my walk was halted, confronted by a tree, Awoke, its tale will linger, forever haunting me
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 3:12 PM UTC
THE DYING TREE
In darkened dream, my walk was halted, confronted by a tree, It stood upright, a branch outstretched and blocked the path on me. In circumventing sideways dance I edged in grass quite slow, but a craggy root handcuffed me, and would not let me go. I stood in shocked drawn silent gaze, unsure of where to turn, This tree had pulled me tighter now, it fought my urge to run. But then it spoke in ancient voice, in tones of guttural flow. Dark words in wood translation, spoke of a poisoned stream below. The leaf on every branch now shivered, in worried recounted tale, as it described through words so clear what caused its bark to fail. A darkened tale of toxic waste, a legacy untold. of man's destructive story, where greed and fear unfold. Water table now unset In (fractured gas) halation. Land is sold and cracked in tempted cash flirtation War for oil in scarlet lands, where majors lived at base. The youth in pointless sacrifice, to save the political face. Where poverty prevailed amid abundant arable nations. and the silent cries of children skewed charitable donations. Air of grey, fermented with pollen soft pollution. Chokes of spluttered ash, cast doubt on evolution This tale of woe recounted by nature's mother-tree with roots now losing hold while balanced grip on me. Swaying branch quite dangerously in forgotten leafy youth. this once majestic elder falls, unburdened by this truth. It died in pain where it had grown drowned slow in poisoned stream. a fading track on reddened skin where its handcuffed branch had been. I straightened up and stumbled on relieved it had let me go. My eyes in shock, slowly adjusted To wood in flat plateau. I cast my eyes in horizoned view not believing what I'd seen. The wood in matchsticked pattern where once proud kings had been. The landscape now lay barren, with wood strewn all around. The stench of rot erupted from muddy blackened ground. I wandered off to tell the tale, of being confronted by this tree, unsure of what just happened or why it had chosen me. I walked for miles in desolate, through air starved atmosphere. but met no one along this road, a winding pot-holed frontier. I walked until I finally woke. in spluttered inhalation. Confused, I feared this reality, of earth's final damnation. In darkened dream, my walk was halted, confronted by a tree, Awoke, its tale will linger, forever haunting me
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People coming by with tins of food and towels Newspapers, toys and blankets, and little plastic trowels I don't understand the reason they are coming We're a charity, we don't need this stuff But, still they keep on coming, bringing food by the truck There's tins, and bags and skids There's enough towels for turban training in British Columbia And papers, lots of newspapers, tons of newspapers But, we are a charity looking for donations This doesn't make sense, all of this animal product showing up Until I checked my email..... **** I hate auto correct on the phone I told people we hoped to increase last years donations And hit a grand total of 101 thousand Thanks to my Iphone...we sent out a message that we had a grand total of a 101 thousand dalmations God, I hate auto correct
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 11:42 PM UTC
I hate Auto correct
Traditionalism is what they follow, Prehistoric is how they live, Caring none about real human beings! They depend on human protection, Yet they pray the lifeless idols & establishments, Statues & religion they call them and waste money on them. They would do their own important work, Tell me to better stop writing these blasphemous poems, Praying, remembering the lord & idol-worshiping is all they care about. People like them won't donate directly to the poor, They say that they put some money in the places of worship, Idols - their idols is who they live for and survive by. My telling this to my countrymen or anybody in the world is vain, They would still go to on or more places of worships, Think that it is not idol worshiping and again not serve the needy directly. They can only criticize me for writing blasphemous words of pain, They would even fight with or **** me if they got hold of me, But they won't stop idol-worshiping and start serving the poor directly themselves. A Messiah calls the idol-worshipers, To avoid going to places of worship, To come and serve the real world, To realize that what you are losing, To help you realize the value of humanity, To make you realize the value of the real world. If you're not scared of change then join me in this new religion, Here we don't worry about God/Ishwar/Bhagwan/Rabb, But we do things that make The Power Happy, Do social service and cleaning their houses, Help the needy monetarily/practically, Instead of just donating somewhere, Shun donations to the places of worship, Go to the needy personally or parcel them happiness, Make sure that the courier service/other establishment you use is 100% genuine. Avoid those agencies who are supposedly in one of the common names of The Power, Hire a company/firm to actually make your donations reach the needy, It'll be very helpful for the humanity which is prime & real, Try this by whatever methods you find genuine, You'll feel yourself elated & calm, Take my word, Seriously.
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 4:26 AM UTC
Why are They Always Scared of Change. [Do read the Footnote.]
Traditionalism is what they follow, Prehistoric is how they live, Caring none about real human beings! They depend on human protection, Yet they pray the lifeless idols & establishments, Statues & religion they call them and waste money on them. They would do their own important work, Tell me to better stop writing these blasphemous poems, Praying, remembering the lord & idol-worshiping is all they care about. People like them won't donate directly to the poor, They say that they put some money in the places of worship, Idols - their idols is who they live for and survive by. My telling this to my countrymen or anybody in the world is vain, They would still go to on or more places of worships, Think that it is not idol worshiping and again not serve the needy directly. They can only criticize me for writing blasphemous words of pain, They would even fight with or **** me if they got hold of me, But they won't stop idol-worshiping and start serving the poor directly themselves. A Messiah calls the idol-worshipers, To avoid going to places of worship, To come and serve the real world, To realize that what you are losing, To help you realize the value of humanity, To make you realize the value of the real world. If you're not scared of change then join me in this new religion, Here we don't worry about God/Ishwar/Bhagwan/Rabb, But we do things that make The Power Happy, Do social service and cleaning their houses, Help the needy monetarily/practically, Instead of just donating somewhere, Shun donations to the places of worship, Go to the needy personally or parcel them happiness, Make sure that the courier service/other establishment you use is 100% genuine. Avoid those agencies who are supposedly in one of the common names of The Power, Hire a company/firm to actually make your donations reach the needy, It'll be very helpful for the humanity which is prime & real, Try this by whatever methods you find genuine, You'll feel yourself elated & calm, Take my word, Seriously.
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With my hands, I want to erase 500 years of colonialism off your flesh. With my lips, I want to placate your christian guilt and burn away your evangelic shame. With my words, I want to travel through your mind spreading a new gospel of love. All in all: I want you to become your own savior breaking tradition in little pieces and rising in passion as a whole until you can touch the moon without having to be crucified. I want you to leave me if that's part of your liberation. It is imperialism and not god that they worship. Being touched by the holy spirit as they turn deaf to the cries of children in Iraq... and on top of that calling the poor woman of color who just had an abortion a murderer. (meanwhile their pastors and priests **** children nonstop.) Begging for donations to build the next temple as people in intervention torn countries die of hunger (all of this while Bill Gates and Carlos Slim become richer.)
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Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 3:28 AM UTC
evangelic shame
Another pointless day On the pavement, in the heat. Only 3 people stopped Hated aching feet. Out here every day With my clipboard and green shirt. Ask strangers for donations to Help rebuild our Earth. Beg and plead and pester Sometimes I even sing, But for no response Apathy is an extraordinary thing. One week rendered only 50 bucks So I started to branch out. Because our dying planet needs the help That only cash can bring about. This day game wasn’t working So I turned to night. Swap the shirt for a skirt And turn on my red light. Earn more in a night hour Than in a week of days Call me any name you want *** sells but also pays. ****** ***** and ********** Harlot, Jezebel. Heard them all, but don’t care Tonight I will sleep well. The blindness of the masses Environment burns unseen. So I sell myself and save the trees It’s not easy being green.
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Jun 9, 2011
Jun 9, 2011 at 3:11 AM UTC
Eco Escort
Virsaviya *a beautiful heart got all required contributions from good hearted people happy for the donations offered now we need all your prayers please remember this little girl in your prayers*
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Oct 31, 2015
Oct 31, 2015 at 6:58 PM UTC
976. Beautiful heart